Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.